Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today's the day in 1828 that Noah Webster went to the copyright office to register his work “An American Dictionary of the English Language.” This work, no pun intended, defined American English as people actually spoke it, but it also included some words that haven't exactly stayed with us. Plus: there are perhaps no words for the mulletty goodness that resulted when a woman in New Zealand tried to cut her hair with a kitchen knife.  Happy Birthday, Webster's 1828! (Merriam-Webster) An A to Z of Noah Webster’s Finest Forgotten Words (Huffington Post) 'Don't have any scissors': Hamilton woman cuts own hair with kitchen knife (Stuff.co.NZ) Cool Weird Awesome's backers on Patreon are the very definition of amazing --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message